militia and then the third group that s starting to emerge, that s egypt that be jordan and maybe saudi arabia. and the big question is which side is the united states going to be on? the american hope was we could have everybody fight together against isis. bill: you say the issue is much bigger than just the town of 300,000 i believe is the number i saw. if you go back to the map and look at where isis is spreading we ll show if you western iraq and northeastern syria and this is a map that we have shown quite often. those are the territories they still control. on the global map you see is very spreading to algeria and libya and the far east and indonesia and the philippines. you have a comprehensive strategy that you believe we ve should pursue. if we are talking about whether we can retake tikrit or
relations between the united states and iran. martha: fascinating. steve, thank you very much. you bet. see on the side of your screen, now on your whole screen. this is the person who is introducing benjamin netanyahu. we re waiting for the speech. just moments away. we ll take you there live. bill: that is bob cohen. we could dip in a moment. he does the intro obviously for benjamin netanyahu. he said on the tarmac before he left tel aviv yesterday he comes to america what he believes is something that is paramount to the israeli people and he speaks on behalf of all the jewish people when he comes here. the big event tomorrow, bipartisan meeting in house of representatives. today, this is the largest israeli american organization you will find in this country. this is a very influential group that netanyahu wants to address first. speech should go about 15 or 20 minutes. we don t know if today s message will be the same as tomorrow. it will certainly touch on some
from a perspective where we can operate. i think there s a lot of merit to partnering with french who have sort of staked out their claim in the saw hill region of north africa. disrespect also included the intelligence community should spend their own spy planes to libya or partner with france that already has air assets in the region to work out how many isis members are in country and what threat they pose to u.s. interests, martha. and who is leading isis in that part of libya? this is one of the most significant developments. one of the leaders is a former member of an al qaeda linked network, islamic fighting group. he was seen by the u.s. and many members of congress as a willing partner in the overthrow of the dictator muammar qaddafi in 2011. he s firmly aligned with isis and in the training camps in libya. the execution of 21 egyptian
steve clemens, washington editor-at-large for atlantic and editor for atlantic live. thanks for joining me, steve, i appreciate it. i want to get to what congressman issa was saying, making the argument this is about semantics. is this a semantic argument about who al qaeda is, who is affiliated or important development in terms of how we understand the attack? i think it s a very important development. i think darrell issa like many have tended throw a lot of islamic groups into one basket and called it al qaeda. it s in exhibited our ability, in many ways, to deal with both the real al qaeda and also to take the blinders off when it comes to dealing with other movements just as important. the primary group when muammar gaddafi was still in power, islamists, opposed united states, islamic fighting group. they were once affiliated with
u.s. embassy. our terrorism expert says that it is alleged that al libi took these surveillance photos to osama bin laden, who looked at them and then pointed to where the truck bomb should go. now, al qaeda apparently put that plot on the shelf for about five years. then bin laden gave the go ahead to attack in 1998. so even if he left al qaeda, it doesn t mean he didn t take part in this plot. and if he did leave al qaeda, as the wife claims, why would he live al qaeda? what s the explanation? according to terrorism experts, moammar gadhafi felt threatened at that time. bin laden and most of the top leadership were in sudan. al libi, according to experts, did leave al qaeda, but then he later joined the islamic fighting group, which was trying